Tiger Icon Studio 3D

  The icon and cursor creation has never been so effective. This product gives you ability to produce modern icons. It is a combination of powerful 3D and 2D Editor. Using this tool you can make high quality and multi-format icons compatible with Windows Vista or WinXP.
Today are many modern icons like 3D models. TIS 3D gives you ability to create your own modern 3D models in fully integrated 3D Editor that contains many basic and dynamics objects and tools. In case that integrated 3D editor can't produce what you need, you can import 3D Models from various professional 3D products(such as 3ds, obj, lwo and almost 20 other formats). Add material with texture to them, set-up lights and send the antialiased result directly to 2D Editor with or without alpha channel as a layer to do additional improvements in integrated 2D Editor. Everything in high resolution to keep the process of creation as user friendly as possible.2D Editor is an object-oriented editor based on Layer architecture. Everything in TIS 3D is object-oriented. This is a BIG PLUS in comparsion with other software products designed for icon creation because you can change everything - anytime. This makes the creation process user friendly and saves you time. 2D Editor supports standart shapes like lines, ellipses, polygons, rectangles, pen tool, bitmap layers etc. Each shape has many own properties and effects .Everything is antialiased. You can also extract the icon from EXE file or import Photoshop (PSD) or any other of almost 20 supported file formats Or you can just load a high resolution picture and smoothly stretch it to icon size.2D editor has also advanced bezier shapes.
If you are not an advanced user, you can use the third editor type named Easy 2D Editor that is non-object oriented and contains basic paintings tools.
These features combined together give you really powerful tool.The advantage is that you are not limited to create only the icons using this tool but can also use it as Image Ed